October 22, 200618 yr The Hills Have Eyes for sure.... With "Last House on the Left" and "Nightmare on Elm St" close behind.... "Shocker" does indeed live up to its name, but in the wrong sense, it really is a SHOCK - INGLY c**p film.... <_< "The Serpent and the Rainbow" is really under-rated and rather unfairly gets forgotten IMO, one of his more interesting films.... "Scream" by contrast is rather over rated.... Great for the first 10 minutes though....
October 22, 200618 yr Author "The Serpent and the Rainbow" is really under-rated and rather unfairly gets forgotten IMO, one of his more interesting films.... i got that a few weeks a go from music zone. £2.97 or less. on my /will watch sometime pile
October 23, 200618 yr never heard of "The Serpent and the Rainbow". The original "Hills Have Eyes" is not the least bit interesting or scary I think. His best is "Nightmare on elm street", for sure
October 23, 200618 yr never heard of "The Serpent and the Rainbow". The original "Hills Have Eyes" is not the least bit interesting or scary I think. His best is "Nightmare on elm street", for sure For its time it was VERY scary Just like Clockwork Orange would probably be a 12a in today's day and age max 15 and Straw Dogs likewise when the original Hills Have Eyes came out it raised the bar in terms of scaryness although yes it would be quite tame in todays day and age
October 23, 200618 yr The hills have eyes and scream = NEVER knew he created them :o Nightmare on elmstreet, knew he created this :wub: the nightmare on elmstreet isnt that scarey if you think about it, it was just really well made, scream :lol: dunnow how anyone could be scared of that but I guess the hills have eyes is quite scarey brilliant director :wub:
October 23, 200618 yr never heard of "The Serpent and the Rainbow". The original "Hills Have Eyes" is not the least bit interesting or scary I think. If you don't 'get' the original "Hills Have Eyes" then you have no idea of the social, political and cultural contexts which informed its creation. "Hills Have Eyes" was made shortly after the end of the Vietnam war and the Watergate scandal, when US society was in upheaval and decay, the 70s were a time of enormous unrest in the US and Craven's film captures this sense of unrest and upheaval brilliantly... A film is NEVER made in isolation to what is going on around it at the time of its creation, do a bit of reading on that period and read the works of people such as Robin Wood (a noted film theorist) to see what lies behind the film, then you might go back to it a bit more enlightened....
October 23, 200618 yr The hills have eyes and scream = NEVER knew he created them :o Well, to be fair, Craven is the Director, Kevin Williamson actually wrote the script, so who to credit as "Scream"'s 'creator' is debatable... Film is a collaborative medium though and one must take into account a lot of factors as to who or what actually 'makes' a film..... "Scream" is a film which has its genesis in a lot of other Horror films bear in mind...
October 23, 200618 yr he is an underrated director i went for nightmare on elmstreet and scream is really well realised and shot, i haven't seen many on the list
October 23, 200618 yr Definitely The Hills Have Eyes. I want to be sentimental and say Scream because it was my favorite film from about age 12 to age 16... but I think it peaks in the first scene with Drew Barrymore and never again matches that intensity or terror. Also I blame Scream for the godawful teen slasher genre that followed throughout the 90's...
October 23, 200618 yr I think it peaks in the first scene with Drew Barrymore and never again matches that intensity or terror. Also I blame Scream for the godawful teen slasher genre that followed throughout the 90's... Hear, hear, absolutely correct in that statement... All the rubbish sanitized 'horror' and endless cruddy remakes can all be traced directly back to "Scream".... Craven and Williamson have a LOT to answer for....
October 23, 200618 yr it's depressing reading that list of movies... from a brilliant start, how low can one man's career go? From Elm Street, it's a sharp nosedive in quality and interest.
October 24, 200618 yr it's depressing reading that list of movies... from a brilliant start, how low can one man's career go? From Elm Street, it's a sharp nosedive in quality and interest. I would argue from "The Serpent and the Rainbow" onwards actually mate :lol:, with a blips for "New Nightmare" (which definitely has a good deal going for it, apart from the rather silly ending..) and the first 10 minutes of "Scream".....
October 24, 200618 yr Author Hear, hear, absolutely correct in that statement... All the rubbish sanitized 'horror' and endless cruddy remakes can all be traced directly back to "Scream".... Craven and Williamson have a LOT to answer for.... and dimension films!!! think they have to be blamed as well
October 27, 200618 yr I like scream best then nightmare on elm street, haven't seen any of the others
October 28, 200618 yr I would argue from "The Serpent and the Rainbow" onwards actually mate :lol:, with a blips for "New Nightmare" (which definitely has a good deal going for it, apart from the rather silly ending..) and the first 10 minutes of "Scream"..... the "New Nightmare" I loved it :wub: but you're right, it was a silly ending, would of been nicer to see a more up to scratch ending but it was nice to see some characters return ^_^
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